Abstract Since the 1970s, the marginalized Chinese American literature has received more and more attention and has been gradually recognized in American society. With the American nationality and Chinese ethnic root, the Chinese American writers constantly show their  understandings of both Chinese and American culture and reflect on the cultural identity of the minority in America.42283

Amy Tan’s The Joy Luck Club mainly describes the inter-generational relationships between the Chinese American mothers and their American-born daughters. She explores the conflicts and misunderstandings between the two generations and shows her understanding of the minority’s cultural identity. This thesis mainly focuses on the issue of cultural identity. It explores the marginalized people’s identity crisis and the conflicts caused by the crisis. It will discuss how the two generations negotiate with each other and finally make an reconciliation. At last, this thesis will reach a conclusion of how to obtain a new and whole cultural identity. Based mainly on Homi Bhabha’s post colonial theories, which share similarities in ethnic cultural identity with those of Amy Tan. Both of them believe that cultural hybridity can give the minority a chance to represent their cultural identities and to speak for them themselves. They think that the cultural identity is a dynamic and hybrid one instead of a fixed and single one and the process of identity searching is negotiable and changeable.

Key words: The Joy Luck Club     cultural identity     hybridity         

摘要20世纪70年代起，一直被视为边缘文学的华裔美国文学开始收到越来越多的人的关注，慢慢得到美国社会的认可。有着美国的国籍和中华民族本源的少数族裔也经常在作品中反映他们对于中美文化的理解和少数族裔对名族文化身份的探寻及其观点。

谭恩美的《喜福会》主要描写了作为美籍华人的母亲和在美国出生成长的女儿之间大的关系，揭露了作为少数族裔的两代人之间的冲突和误会并反映了她对名族文化身份的寻找的思考。本文主要分析《喜福会》中对于名族文化身份的思考与探寻。首先是对文中两代人面对的危机即文化身份认证的危机进行阐述和引起这种危机的原因进行分析，接着讲他们是如何通过沟通和故事讲述，回忆的方式来了解彼此以化解矛盾，勇敢的面对自己和对方坚持选择的文化身份，最后得出结论，少数族裔应建立一个混血的身份以及如何做才能实现完整的文化身份。本文主要是建立在霍米·巴巴的理论之上。该理论在民族文化身份方面体现了和谭恩美相似的想法。他们都认为他们都认为一个混血的文化身份给他们提供了一个为自己发声的机会，并且他们认为文化身份是一个动态的、不断变化以及混血的身份而不是静止的单一的，其过程也是一个可以沟通和变化的过程。

毕业论文关键词:《喜福会》     文化身份     混杂

Contents  

Abstract i

摘  要 ii

Contents iii

Introduction 1

Chapter One Identity Crisis 4

1.1 Identity crisis of the mothers 4

1.2 Identity crisis of daughters 7

1.3 Inter-generational Relationship 9

Chapter Two Identity Awakening 13

2.1 The Memory Itself 13

2.2 Negotiate Through Memory Disclosure 《喜福会》文化差异和认同:http://www.youerw.com/yingyu/lunwen_42651.html